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High level English speakers invited to teach the language in Chinese rural areas at local salaries. Ideal gap year project with additional benefits thrown in such as free flights. You don't need to be a qualified language teacher to participate. A novice teacher is better than no teacher.
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Very interesting article about the limits of MOOCs as they currently are. But limits show where the challenges lie and where the work needs to be done. Delete the scoop?
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An example of a MOOC which results in usable skills for free. Delete the scoop?
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“Orphans are often treated as second class citizens and that creates a lasting impression on these young minds. Taking the same approach in education seemed counter intuitive, as our objective should be to empower them with the tools to get out of their current condition and become independent.” Neil DSouza Teach A Class was started in 2010 when Neil Dsouza and Leila Al-Muthashib were planning their one-year sabbatical from Cisco Systems. Neil was thinking of spending a year in orphanages in Mongolia but without a specific project in mind. Being a seasoned traveler, Neil had noticed that a lot of orphanages had computer labs but no internet access. That led to severe under-utilization of technology, and in some areas, technology was even considered an extravagant expense. The children had already been denied basic educational infrastructure; in an ironic twist, they were also being deprived of the online education revolution. The people who could benefit the most from such online resources as Khan Academy and ck12 were the ones who were denied access to them. Delete the scoop?
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Sustainable education using technology in resource poor environments. Free MOOC starts Oct 15. Delete the scoop?
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United Nation’s mobile learning specialist Steve Vosloo argues phones could be the future of education on the continent. Delete the scoop?
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The aim of this scheme is to provide ecology and conservation books to those from outside Western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand who would otherwise be unable to obtain them. The simple purpose of this scheme is to spread ecological knowledge as widely as possible.
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iSchoolAfrica aims to bring the best available education technology and practices to schools in South Africa.
iSchoolAfrica’s success and sustainability is a result of the following:
The mobile classroom - no complex infrastructure required Each participating school is issued with: 1 mobile classroom containing12 MacBooks, 12 video cameras and 1 projector. This is kept in a secure, mobile case. The mobile classroom is an efficient way of deploying scarce resources and can be moved from classroom to classroom, ensuring integration into subject teaching and learning. It’s a tool for accelerated and collaborative learning.
Access to the world’s best educational technology The critical piece of hardware is the MacBook, Apple’s special-purpose education laptop. This MacBook comes preloaded with the award-winning iLife suite of applications, which is the absolutely essential toolkit for the creation of multimedia projects - allowing learners to make movies, music, websites and more. This supports creative, challenge-based learning which is used by teachers and learners to create curriculum-relevant projects. Delete the scoop?
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Kids text all the time – at school, on the bus, even when you’re trying to talk to them. It can be annoying. But imagine if a child couldn’t communicate at all – that’s when a mobile can become a lifeline. Delete the scoop?
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The RACHEL Initiative Remote Areas Community Hotspots for Education and Learning Leverage the large volume of open and free educational courseware and libraries available online and make them accessible to Emerging Countries communities with no internet access or very limited bandwidth.
Empower these small communities by deploying a pre-packaged, self-contained, scalable and highly mobile Educational Servers Solution that can be accessed by basic wireless laptops (OLPC type) or wired PCs. Delete the scoop?
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The BBC's Fiona Graham visited east Africa to find out if in a region synonymous with technology innovation - can tech change the future for the tomorrow's innovators? Delete the scoop?
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BBC Janala Activity: Providing English language lessons through mobile phones, television, web, print and CD Organization: BBC World Service Trust Sector: Informal learning Country: United Kingdom Reach: Bangladesh Number of beneficiaries: 26.3 million people Date of creation: 2009 Delete the scoop?
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Working with leading innovation thinker Charles Leadbeater, we looked at several challenges facing education and noticed that there were remarkable similarities between the challenges faced by different communities. Some were more extreme than others, but they were in essence the same challenge—some schools in the United States might be facing a shortage of science teachers, and schools in Africa might have no teachers at all. Maybe they would have similar solutions.
This sparked an idea that Charles and Annika Wong took as the foundation of this report: that by looking at similar problems in different contexts, we might yield some global insights. And by looking at learning in the most extreme environments, we might just find the most innovative ideas of all.
They did in-depth research into some of the world’s leading educational innovations, meeting remarkable, inspiring people from around the globe. Some of these people have transformed education in their countries, often building from nothing and creating incredible institutions that are, right now, transforming thousands of lives. It is humbling to see them doing this without most of the resources that many education systems take for granted: often without funding, usually without teachers, sometimes without buildings, and often without supportive governments. Many have used technology, but they’ve used it in a new way: not simply to automate processes but to inspire, to engage, and to connect.
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Big potential: "nearly 42% of the target audience for MOOCs are not the developed world" Delete the scoop?
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Editor’s note: Sharon Watkins is a Coursera student who runs an Ohio-based Non-Profit “The Learning Cafe”. She’s empowering her local community by encouraging people to take courses together & improve...
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Who knows how long MOOCs will last but in the meantime this is a great idea for taking max advantage of them & avoiding high dropout rate. Delete the scoop?
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The mission of the SMILE (Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment) Consortium is to actively engage students by flipping the current model of lect... Delete the scoop?
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They cycle hundreds of miles to give the poorest villagers a window to the world. Delete the scoop?
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UNESCO Bangkok produced seven CD-ROMs, in a series of quality resources for the ICT in Education Teacher Training Project in the Asia-Pacific Region. One objective of this project was to develop a set of materials that will be useful to Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) in training teachers to integrate ICT in their pedagogy. However, anybody involved in education can make good use of the resources presented on the CDs.
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This is an excellent resource. Thanks.
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This is education that works and that is appropriate for the situation. It includes responsive information sent to low end mobile phones and low cost starter kits for professional farmers. Delete the scoop?
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Recruiting the right people to make your company a success is getting increasingly difficult in Kenya, as the BBC's Fiona Graham found out. Delete the scoop?
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If you live and work in a developing country as defined by the World Bank you may be eligible for a Consultants-E scholarship which would enable you to take their online e-moderation course free of charge (normal price 435€). You have until 31st August to apply. Delete the scoop?
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The innovative KiBO Foundation establishes local, social enterprises focused on developing skills and unleashing the capacity of our youth. Training in applied internet, communication and technology (“ICT”) skills is the foundation we create to nurture and develop leadership abilities. Graduates are empowered and encouraged to give back to their communities contributing to our goal of self sustainability.
KiBO’s track record to date has been exceptional. We operate in areas where unemployment exceeds 80%, yet 90% of our students find employment upon graduation. We are very proud of the fact that students are actively building capacity within their communities and many are going on to pursue entrepreneurial ventures. Delete the scoop?
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Universal Virtual Content (UVC) an Institution based in Kampala is delivering a truly cloud computing environ supporting a holistic learning infrastructure that enables e-training of students using internet enabled technology. The revolution and pioneer institution in Uganda is equipped with vitual Web-based technology that facilitate to study professional courses such as CPA(U), Banking, ACCA and other many more to come to a diploma and certificate level . Delete the scoop?
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*Solar powered mobile classrooms* "Maendeleo" means "progress" in the Swahili language. We are committed to helping build a productive computer services industry in East Africa, connecting people and information using the latest Internet technologies, and thereby increasing personal incomes and boosting the local economy. In doing so, part of our aim is to set an example for other NGOs, businesses and government organizations to join in and help grow this industry.
Maendeleo Foundation's mission is to complement the existing education system by making computers available to people of all ages, providing customized training, and encouraging and supporting the formation of Information Communication Technology businesses. We operate innovative training programs in a network of primary schools, and cooperate with organizations of similar interests that share our commitment to the promotion of technology for development. As a natural outcome of this mission, in 2012 we opened a training center for students wishing further technology education. Delete the scoop?
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Vinny Lohan, winner of General Electric's Alva Emerging Fellowship, talks to Ruchi Chopda about his technology that will provide an effective and low-cost way to beam out daily lessons to children... Delete the scoop?
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